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******* NYTimes.com: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html?smid=em-share
[The Washington Post] Rethinking the roots and contradictions of Trumpism
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/04/04/hayeks-bastards-quinn-slobodian-review/
In his contempt for Europe, Trump might reap what he has sown
[The Washington Post] America was at its Trumpiest 100 years ago. Here’s how to prevent the worst.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/03/trump-wilson-world-war-hochschild/
NYTimes: 30 Years Ago, This Book Saw the Coming Backlash Against Elites
**** NYTimes.com: ‘What Is Our Country Becoming?’ Four Columnists Map Out Where Trump Is Taking America.
‘What Is Our Country Becoming?’ Four Columnists Map Out Where Trump Is Taking America.
America is in a period of profound national regression. Where will the country end up?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/trump-ice-detentions.html?smid=em-share
******* $$$$$$ NYTimes.com: To Save Democracy, Here’s a Playbook That Works
To Save Democracy, Here’s a Playbook That Works
Poland pulled back from an authoritarian slide. What can the U.S. learn from its nonpartisan approach?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/poland-democracy-us.html?smid=em-share
*********** NYTimes.com: ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the “parents’ revolution” on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes: How Online Rage Invaded a Victorian-Era Intellectual Retreat
Charges of antisemitism and liberal bias and dismay over cuts to the opera budget have led to a small mutiny at Chautauqua Institution. And this was after the attack on Salman Rushdie.
The rebel leader believed success was in hand: An autocrat deposed, tyranny on the run, one of America’s oldest cultural institutions rescued from disaster.
“We used classic guerrilla tactics,” said Twig Branch, the rebel leader, savoring his victory. He and a small band of allies had successfully ousted the president of Chautauqua Institution, a 151-year-old resort and cultural center that every summer attracts authors, musicians, playwrights and public intellectuals to its 750-acre lakeside campus in western New York. “We established a sophisticated spy network. We carefully designed a cellular network of provocateurs.”